Friday, 6 June 2008

A Winning Small Cake!

I am chuffed to bits! This week I found out, that I am the winner of a lovely signed cake book by Roger Pizey, a professional baker and patissier!

A couple of months ago, I spotted a little competition in the food section of The Guardian: Weekend magazine. You had to enter a photo of your best small cake.
Easy? NO!!! Having a passion for baking, and cakes being quite high on the baking list, it was going to be hard to decide. In the end, the decision was made by the boys, they wanted coffee cupcakes.

If you are a regular reader, you might be thinking that the photo looks a bit like the cappuccino muffins that I posted about just after Christmas. I have to agree, they do look similar. BUT, these little cakes are far lighter in texture and were made using a classic Victoria sponge recipe, and baked in a flexible silicone brioche mould. I did pinch the topping from the muffins, as it's one of our favourites.

Thank you Dan Lepard, who writes the baking column, and the team from The Guardian for picking my photo - I am thrilled!

Congratulations again Nic....This is a lovely cupcake, I was drooling so much I nealy licked my computer screen.And, thanks so much for changing the post thingy, I clicked posts and it came up first time without shutting Explorer down.